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The Life of Yvette, Recluse of Huy, by Hugh of Floreffe Translated, with introduction and notes, by Jo Ann McNamara |
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After the death of her husband, Yvette of Huy (1158-1228), renounced the world and became an anchoress in a leper colony where her holy life attracted a community of disciples and benefactors.
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| "In presenting this life, Jo Ann McNamara has successfully evoked not only the urban growthof the turn of the thirteenth century, but has also offered a new picture of how women acted out religious ambitions creating opportunities for themselves which are often missed in traditional histories of religious life." - Constance Berman, editor of The Worlds of Medieval Women: Creativity, Influence, Imagination (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1985). |
